We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2020
Chapter 7 covers processes that lead to the evolution of planetary systems. Planetary migration in gaseous disks is described, starting with an elementary derivation of the torque in the impulse approximation and continuing with a discussion of the physics of Lindblad and co-rotation torques. Type I and Type 2 planetary migration, gap opening, and eccentricity evolution are described. The regimes of secular and resonant dynamics are defined, together with an intuitive physical description of mean-motion resonance. Resonant capture, Kozai-Lidov dynamics, and planetesimal disk migration are discussed. The concept of Hill stability is introduced and derived, and the outcome of planetary system instability leading to planet-planet scattering is reviewed. The Nice model and the Grand Tack model for the early evolution of the Solar System are discussed. The size distribution resulting from a steady-state collisional cascade is derived, and stellar and white dwarf debris disk evolution described.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
